@bhorowitz: the two skills silicon valley has underrated are creativity and the ability to create and maintain relationships. both are about to matter more. the second one is what we're building noticed for.

morning run in sf organized by @MicaelOl from @amplemarket. tech week is mostly panels and pitch nights. the best conversations still happen side by side, on a run.

The thing I learned this year is that when engineers say they like working on “hard problems”, they actually don't. What they like is puzzle solving, and having a repertoire of patterns that they can pattern match onto traditionally hard problems, usually involving databases or something with scale, etc. And they know that the industry used to pay you a lot for how deep and broad this repertoire was. Unfortunately, in 2026, well, you have a cheat code machine that has infinite breadth and depth for pattern matching. So the question is, do you actually like hard problems? Because there are now hard problems that are a complection of engineering, product, society, culture, politics, and they are fairly intractable, probably unsolvable! Because if you do want to work on those actually hard problems, there is so much money that people will pay you for it. But you’ll have to face that truth about yourself first.

Evals as the code factory That’s @simao_etc secret sauce to build faster with a small and focused team

Tomorrow: day one of Lisbon AI. Doors at 9. Models in the morning (@Prince_Canuma, @joanrod_ai, @chema_garabito, @duarteocarmo, @SergioPaniego, @Shekswess,), Agents after lunch (@mattzcarey, @marcelolebre, @Misreadable, @k11kirky @rodriguespn23, @harshil1712). Eval into the evening (@thomjenko, @yomieluwande, @simao_etc, Will Burstein, Oguz Gultepe). And then the Sunset Party. Laptops on stage. Live demos. See you there.